Hello all! I've recently installed Alien Bob's -current ISO and am loving it. Brings back pleasant memories of having run Slackware in the past, when things were simpler. Pretty much everything has worked so far, with one exception:

I'm used to using ffmpegthumbnailer (under Arch/Manjaro/other KDE distros) to provide video thumbnails in dolphin, so I used sbopkg to install ffmpeg and then ffmpegthumbnailer. The problem is that dolphin doesn't seem to care. No tick-box for anything but the already working (but slow) mplayerthumbs in the configure previews options. I've tried several versions of ffmpeg/thumbnailer, including those from sbopkg's default 14.1, ponce's repo for current, and a few further afield, all with no luck.

But I'm not that technically inclined, so maybe I'm missing something simple? I throw myself on the mercy of the Slackware elite for help here!

FYI I'm running 64-bit current, with all updates as of right now, with all package sets installed except KDE-i and Tcl/tk. Come to think of it I am using a custom kernel, but my limited understanding leads me to think that that probably isn't it, as VLC (from Alien Bob, and aside from flash-plugin and now the ffmpeg stuff the only non-native package installed) works just fine.

I haven't tried it here, but these seems related

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=126878
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=201484

You have to be careful, this is a bit confusing. dolphin needs a package called "ffmpegthumbs", which is not the same as "ffmpegthumbnailer".
It could be that just installing that is not enough either though, I don't know how the thumbnailer integration works.

@ponce: thanks! It looks as though there's a good bit of confusion as to what works and when, for which KDE version, etc. All I know is that in every other KDE implementation I've used (Mageia, openSUSE, Arch/Manjaro, 'buntus, Debian, Fedora) ffmpegthumbnailer has been what's worked. Seems odd (to idiot me) that it just won't in Slack so far.

@ppr:kut: Yeah, it is quite confusing, but I'm positive that it's been ffmpegthumbnailer rather than ffmpegthumbs (at least according to the preferences tick-box) that's worked before and still works in other distros, both in KDE4 and plasma 5. I'm just not smart enough to figure out why!

I'll keep digging...

You did recompile dolphin with it? I use it with spacefm and it won't work unless you compile it into spacefm... I imagine it is the same for dolphin.

@orbea: OK, it never occurred to me that maybe recompiling dolphin would be necessary. I'll look into that, thanks! Or maybe I'll just learn to live with mplayerthumbs. It's not all that important after all. I just thought that perhaps I was ignorant of some simple solution.

I ended up writing an ffmpegthumbs SlackBuild, then noticed that I could have installed Alien Bob's (I didn't have it installed for some reason)...

Anyway, mine builds the latest version from git, and it definitely works:

https://github.com/duganchen/my_slac...mbs.SlackBuild